The Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies Vol. LXXXIV Elements of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages

Page DEFINITION OF THE SCIENCE OF THE INDO-GERMANIC! LAGUAGES AND THE DIVISION OF THE INDO. [...] Aryan branch (§ 4) 4 2. The Armenian branch (§ 5) 5 3. The Greek branch (§ 6) 6 4. The Albanian branch (§ 7) 7 5. The Italic branch (§ 8) 8 6. The Keith) branch (§ 9) 0 7. The Germania branch (§ 10) 10 8. The Baltic-Slavonic branch (§ 11) 11 %ketch of the Indg. [...] The nature of ablaut and the different grades of ablaut in general (§ 807-310) 244 1. The f-series (§ 311-314) 247 2. The 6-series (§ 315) 254 3. The a-series (§ 316) 255 4. The 6-series (§ 317) 255 5. The s-series (§ 318) 256 6. The o-series (§ 319) 258 EXPLOSIVES. [...] Towards the end of the fifth century B. C. there was formed on the basis of the Attic dialect a literary language common to all Greeks which almost entirely excluded the use of the other dialects from the later prose literature of antiquity. [...] The contrast beween the popular and the literary language which had already arisen at the beginning of the archhic period of literature (from Li vius Andronicus to Cicero) became still sharper in the classical period and the further development of the former is almost entirely lost to our observation until the Middle Ages when the popular Latin of the various provinces of the Roman empire me